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| Cover painting Choice, by Pattee. |
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
DR FUTURITY
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| Artist uncredited. |
"He had a moment of shattering, blinding terror. One minute he'd been driving along the familiar road to his city office, next he was hurtled centuries into the future - but why? The tribesmen of the wolf had chosen him for a grimly dangerous task. But how could he escape it, and return to his own time?"
Monday, 8 August 2011
THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH
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| Illustration by Peter Goodfellow. |
"World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fifteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of the never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all-powerful protector. But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and west are at peace. Across the planet, an élite corps of hoaxers live in vast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie. Until one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister penultimate truth of them all..."
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
LA SECONDE MORT PHILIP K. DICK
A few people asked, so here are scans of the Blade Runner article from Metal Hurlant issue 79, September 1982, plus a bonus article which appears to infer a Moebius / Blade Runner link - useless unless you speak french but if anyone does, let us know.
Sunday, 10 July 2011
METAL HURLANT NO.77.78.79.80.81.82
Look what I found in the attic. This is a collected volume of five issues of Metal Hurlant in its original french language. I can't understand much (if any) but still, it's nice to look at. Ten points to the anonymous commenter who noticed that the Blade Runner cover is actually issue 79, not 78. There must be a misprint here because there is no issue 77 inside the book, we start at 78 and end at 82. The chapter that constitutes issue 79 has a large Blade Runner feature featuring stills, artwork and a nice photo of Ridley Scott with Philip K. Dick (who died six months before the magazine was published). For the curious, the other cover reproductions aren't anything special, issues 80 and 82 for example feature Dragonslayer and Tron promo photos on the covers.
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| Page from Salamandres - Axolotls by Philippe Caza |
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| Page from Logiciel - Coup D'Etat by Philippe Gauckler and Charles Imbert. |
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| Cover for Metal Hurlant 79 by Ralph Reese. |
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| Page from Richard Corben's Den II. |
Thursday, 7 July 2011
TRAVELLING TOWARDS EPSILON
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| NEL paperback, June 1978. Illustration by Joe Petagno. |
"French science fiction has a distinguished and impressive a history as our own, dating back to the seventeenth century and beyond. Here is an anthology of some of its best short stories, edited and introduced by Maxim Jakubowski, who is himself an acknowledged master of the art. There is Delta, a love story set on a planet where there are three sexes ; The Gunboat Dread, a grotesque piece of science fantasy ; How's Business?, the story of an interplanetary soap company ; and others, all masterpieces in their own right."
Contains:
The Gunboat Dread by Daniel Walther
Where The Astronauts Meet by Suzanne Malaval
How's Business? by Jacques Sternberg
Jonah by Gérard Klein
Until Proof To The Contrary by Bernard Mathon
Towards The High Tower by Michel Jeury
It's Only Pinball! by Philippe Curval
Summer In The Death Zone by Maxim Jakubowski
Thomas by Dominique Douay
Delta by Christine Renard and Claude F. Cheinisse
The Bubbles by Julia Verlanger
Stars, Here I Come! by Jean-Pierre Andrevon
The Leap by Tony Cartano
Wings In The Night by Nathalie Henneberg
ACE DOUBLE: THE SEARCH FOR ZEI + THE HAND OF ZEI
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| Ace Double paperback, 1963. Cover by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh"). |
"Twenty-five degrees north of the equator on the planet Krishna lies the Banjao sea, the largest body of water on this planet. And in this sea is found the Sunqar, home of legend and mystery.
"Here under the scorching rays of the hot high sun, the beaked galleys of Dur and the tubby round ships of Jazmurian slowly rot in the unbreakable grip of a vast floating continent of sea vine. Even the violent storms of the Krishnan sub-tropics no more than ruffle the surface of the immense floating swamp. Nothing, once caught in this web of weed, can escape..."
Barely had Dick Barnevelt written these words as part of a publicity campaign for his boss, than he learned that he would shortly find himself isolated in the middle of this terrible place on a barbaric planet without the aid of scientific equipment, surrounded by deadly dangers, with an unfulfilled mission and the dire necessity of making an escape he had just declared impossible."
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| Ace Double paperback, 1963. Cover by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh"). |
GOLDEN BLOOD
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| Lancer paperback, 1964. Artwork by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh"). |
"Au / 79 / 197.2
Chemical symbol...Atomic number...Atomic weight...
Scientific terms for gold...But science can't begin to explain the mystery and magic of gold.
It was gold that lured the "Secret Legion" - as oddly mixed a group of adventurers as any in song or story - into the world's most treacherous desert.
And gold they found - a golden man, an exotic golden woman, a huge golden tiger, and an eerie golden snake.
Gold brought them together ... Gold made them enemies in a battle to the death...Gold held the key to the mysterious forces that assailed them.
Jack Williamson, alchemist with words, spins a rare web of adventure, fantasy and science...a gem from the golden age of Weird Tales, now available in book form for the first time."
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
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